AMU Prof. dr hab. Joanna Piech-Sławecka

oboist, choirmaster, voice trainer

Joanna Piech-Sławecka – conductor, choirmaster, oboist, speech therapist, voice production coach. She is associated with the Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz, where she studied oboe in the class of prof. Krzysztof Wroniszewski and conducting in the class of prof. Janusz Stanecki (graduation with honours). She has also completed postgraduate speech therapy studies at the Higher School of Humanities and Journalism in Poznań. Since 2002 she has been affiliated with the Adam Mickiewicz University Chamber Choir, currently holding the post of the ensemble’s second conductor. She is also a professor at the AMU Faculty of Pedagogy and Arts in Kalisz, where she teaches a conducting class. She is a co-founder and the conductor of a project-based choir Provocalis and the artistic director of the Sanctimonialis autem femina soloist ensemble performing Polish baroque pieces written for female voices, found in post-Benedictine libraries.

Dr Piech-Sławecka also works as a consultant, vocal trainer and choirmaster in theatre projects, most important of them being “Hymn to love” directed by Marta Górnicka performed at the most significant European stages, including Switzerland, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Greece and Italy. Besides, she cooperates with the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, working on the spectacle “Still life”.

Joanna Piech-Sławecka organizes concerts for the International Festival of University Choirs "Universitas Cantat” hosted at Adam Mickiewicz University and is the Vice-Director of the festival since 2009. She is also President of the AMU Chamber Choir Friends' Association.